Three small boat migrants are found GUILTY of gang-raping unconscious drunk woman on Brighton beach in ‘predatory and callous’ attack

Three asylum seekers who entered the UK illegally on small boats have been found guilty of gang-raping a woman on Brighton beach.

Iranian-born Abdulla Ahmadi (26) and Egyptians Karin Al-Danasurt (20) and Ibrahim Alshafe (25) repeatedly raped the 33-year-old woman behind a beach hut on October 4 last year.

The trio acted as a ‘pack of predators’ after spotting a drunk victim staggering along the walkway after a night out.

Two men approached him on the street at around 5.45am and began talking to him, and just four minutes later he was seen on CCTV walking him towards a ramp leading to the beach.

What happened next was a brutal act of sexual violence and has further fueled the contentious debate around immigration and border control.

Two of the attackers were unable to claim asylum but were still living in a Home Office-approved hotel in West Sussex. The third person was under investigation for immigration crimes.

Al-Danasurt recorded the attack on his mobile phone and shared the video; He tried to insist in court that he made the recording to ‘gather evidence for the police’.

When asked by prosecutors about his understanding of consent, he said he thought “rape is sex” and added that the woman was so drunk she could barely stand.

The three men had a barbecue at a taxpayer-funded hotel in Brighton following the attack.

CCTV footage shown to the jury showed the group chatting throughout the night and groping other women, including a friend of the woman they raped.

Egyptian asylum seeker Karin Al-Danasurt said during the hearing that she thought ‘rape was sex’

The men filmed themselves getting ready for the night before catching a bus to Brighton where they met the woman

Lewes Crown Court in Hove previously heard asylum seekers filmed themselves getting ready and partying in nightclubs before targeting their victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

In one clip, Alshafe was seen talking to an unidentified blonde woman at Horizon nightclub in the early hours of October 4.

Since he could not speak Arabic and she could not speak English, the two communicated through the Google Translate application.

In a series of messages, he asked her where she was from and told her she was welcome in the UK, but questioned her reason for coming to the country.

He asked her what her ‘goal’ was for the future and how she thought her life in Britain would develop.

Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Water, who read the message, said the woman asked: ‘Is your only purpose here to marry an English woman?’

He replied: ‘I am in this country. ‘I will build my future, meet a woman, get married, have children and become a citizen.’

Another CCTV clip from earlier in the evening showed Ahmadi and Alshafe in the foyer of Revolution nightclub.

Here, Ahmadi groped one of the complainant’s friends by putting his arm around her waist.

Meanwhile, Al-Danasurt wrapped his arms around the neck of a brunette woman he did not know and caressed her butt.

Three men left the Horizon nightclub, which closed at 5am, and targeted the lone victim, who was partying at the same bar.

He described himself as a ‘paralyzing drunk’ and said he had no memory of how he got to Brighton beach.

After the rape allegation, the immigrants took the bus and returned to their hotels and filmed themselves having a barbecue on the hotel grounds.

She recalled going in and out of consciousness as she was repeatedly ‘abused’ by the three men.

The jury heard him say in the video interview: ‘At first it was like I was coming to and someone had put their finger in my mouth and it was like they were rubbing their finger in my mouth and it was like I was falling asleep again.

‘As always, I was there but I wasn’t, as if it was a very strange experience. It’s like I got drunk, I’m 30 something years old, I’ve been drunk many times, I’ve never experienced a feeling like this before.

‘And just like I could remember like I could see a light on my face, you know, when he put the flash on the like of an iPhone’s camera I could hear him say, ‘Dirty bitch, dirty bitch’ in a foreign accent.

Alshafe claimed during the trial that he lost his virginity while participating in the gang rape of the woman.

When asked by prosecutors whether he had had sexual intercourse before, he replied: ‘No, this was the first time.

‘I was happy to try something like this for the first time.’

Al-Danasurt was questioned during the hearing about why he filmed the attack on Brighton beach.

Hanna Llewellyn-Waters, prosecuting for the Crown, asked her: ‘Do you think you witnessed a rape?’

‘I see sex in front of me,’ he told the court.

“No, there are so many different types of sex, you were witnessing a rape,” Ms Llewellyn-Waters said.

Al-Danasurt replied: ‘I saw this too. ‘For me, rape is sex.’

He was also challenged on whether he saw ‘any distinction’ between someone who was or was not gender accepting, and whether that was ‘important’.

Speaking through an Arabic interpreter, he said he did not understand the question.

The three defendants partied at asylum hotels following the attack; One of them posed with a sunglasses filter on his face

The Egyptian who was raided said: ‘I said what I saw. He was closing his eyes and opening his eyes. He wasn’t talking.

‘The situation was not pleasant, it was bad. He couldn’t say anything. They were raping her but I didn’t hear anything. ‘I didn’t hear what they said to him.’

Al-Danasurt told police that he began filming his friends living in the same Ministry of Internal Affairs-approved asylum hotel in order to collect evidence.

When asked why he was filming, he said: ‘It was to stop them and protect myself. ‘I did my best to stop them and talk to them.’

But Mrs Llwelly-Waters told her: ‘You did absolutely nothing. ‘The next day you went and had a barbecue with them.’

The men also filmed themselves preparing to spend the night out before boarding a bus to Brighton on the night of the attack.

A video shot in a room of the asylum hotel where they all lived was shown to the jury.

After the rape, they took the bus back to their hotel and then filmed themselves having a barbecue in the garden.

In the clip shown to the jury, one of the defendants is seen smoking a cigarette while cooking meat on a portable barbecue.

All of the defendants denied the charges against them but were found guilty by a jury at Lewes Crown Court. They will be sentenced at a later date.